by Lon Seidman & Goldie Chan | December 18, 2018 5:50 PM
Roku, of the first makers of video streaming boxes, continues to lead the market with no less than seven different offerings. We’ve tested them all and think the Roku Streaming Stick+ offers the best balance of features, performance, and price.
by Cara Rosner
Posted: Oct 29, 2014 2:41pm
Customers who previously had AT&T Inc. landline, Internet, and video services were switched over to Stamford-based Frontier Communications over this past weekend and, for many, it’s been a bumpy transition.
by Edison Liu
Posted: Oct 19, 2014 10:22pm
On Oct. 7, several hundred friends and supporters gathered for the grand opening of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus in Farmington.
by Barth Keck
Posted: Oct 11, 2014 10:49am
To app or not to app. That is the question. At least that’s the question for this skeptical, 50-something English teacher.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: May 11, 2014 9:48am
NASA Astronaut and UConn alum Rick Mastracchio gave the commencement address for the UConn School of Engineering from the International Space Station May 10.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: May 9, 2014 4:13pm
Dr. Frederick J. Leonberger will receive the 2014 Connecticut Medal of Technology at the 39th Annual Meeting & Dinner of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: May 1, 2014 11:24pm
Is your connection to cyberspace fast enough? CTTechJunkie helped answer the question on The Colin McEnroe Show on May 1, exploring what it will take to bring gigabit speeds to Connecticut towns.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Feb 21, 2014 1:09pm
Jay Patterson snapped this photo yesterday of a Delta IV rocket launching a GPS satellite to orbit.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Feb 4, 2014 5:39pm
Google is launching their Doodle contest, giving students in all 50 states the opportunity to compete for a $30,000 college scholarship and a $50,000 educational technology grant for their school.
by Jay Patterson
Posted: Nov 20, 2013 12:32am
NASA’s latest mission to the red planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) lifted off from launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral air force station on top of an United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket November 18.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Nov 18, 2013 2:59pm
Connecticut, along with 36 other states and the District of Columbia, will collect $17 million from Google after the company allegedly circumvented privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Nov 13, 2013 10:05am
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio showed off a Geocaching Travelbug given to him by Waterbury elementary school students from the Cupola on the International Space Station.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Nov 6, 2013 2:45pm
Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced Monday that grants have been awarded to help with the installation of 56 publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) charging stations throughout Connecticut.
by WNPR
Posted: Nov 5, 2013 9:18am
CTTechJunkie’s Lon Seidman was a guest on WNPR’s Where We Live to discuss “coding literacy” in the wake of Healthcare.gov’s ongoing issues.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Oct 28, 2013 9:12am
Ladar Levison was the founder and owner of secure email service Lavabit that was shut down earlier this year after he was forced to turn the site’s encryption keys over to the government.
by CTByTheNumbers
Posted: Oct 10, 2013 12:15pm
NASA will be among the agencies contributing crew members on upcoming missions to the International Space Station this fall, including a veteran astronaut who grew up in Waterbury.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Sep 24, 2013 5:02pm
Car rallies are often known for the purr (or roar) of finely tuned engines, but the electric cars participating in Sunday’s rally at Central Connecticut State University won’t make much noise at all on their seven mile journey.
by Leo Canty
Posted: Sep 1, 2013 11:05am
Leo Canty pens an op-ed for the Courant highlighting the ongoing "robot revolution," a wave of automation that is undercutting the economy by replacing humans with machines.
by CTNextDaily
Posted: Aug 20, 2013 6:44pm
Last Thursday’s LaunchHaven was a reminder of the quality and variety of great ideas within the Connecticut startup community.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Aug 16, 2013 5:29pm
U.S. Rep Jim Himes, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a statement this afternoon in response to a Washington Post article that revealed the NSA violated its own rules for electronic surveillance 2,776 times.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Aug 12, 2013 10:51am
AT&T announced that the company’s regional vice president for external and legislative affairs, John Emra, will be its new Connecticut President.
by Hartford Courant
Posted: Jul 23, 2013 7:44am
The clunky, noisy, technologically dated cable box is finally getting a makeover. For area Comcast subscribers, it starts Tuesday with the official availability of the X1 video-service platform powered by an Internet-equipped set-top box.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Jun 17, 2013 8:44am
CTTechJunkie writer Lon Seidman appeared on Fox61’s The Real Story on Sunday, June 16. Warning: The video will start playing the moment you click the link.
by Lon Seidman
Posted: Jun 11, 2013 11:42am
The annual E3 video gaming conference is underway in Los Angeles, and the big console makers are showing off new hardware they hope will help them dominate the multibillion dollar industry.
by Lon Seidman | Oct 24, 2018 4:46pm
Video game fans of a certain age are rediscovering the old classics and driving demand for new hardware and ports of their favorite classic games from the 80’s and 90’s.
by Lon Seidman | Jul 12, 2017 12:39pm
Posted to: Analysis | Consumer Watchdog | Government 2.0 | LON.TV | Net Neutrality | Opinion | Politics 2.0 | Tech Biz
Today is Net Neutrality Day.
In the early 2000’s I served on a local Comcast regulatory committee. Here are a few of my experiences holding the company accountable and how their lobbyists were able to quickly change laws that they didn’t like. This is a snippet from my Weekly Wrapup show at http://lon.tv.
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Goldie Chan contributed to the production of this video.
by Lon Seidman | Nov 1, 2016 10:20pm
Apple finally announced a refresh to their Macbook Pro line of laptops, the first major redesign of the product in more than four and a half years.
Continue reading "New MacBook Pro Laptops (finally) Announced" »
by Lon Seidman | Oct 31, 2016 10:55pm
This week I give my thoughts on the new Macbook Pro’s, the advantages of VPN services, why I never profile Firefox on the channel, and eating old stuff.
by Lon Seidman | Mar 29, 2016 10:17pm
Posted to: LON.TV | Review
by Lon Seidman | Mar 24, 2016 11:16am
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by Lon Seidman | Nov 24, 2015 12:04pm
Posted to: Research & Development | Spaceflight | Startups | Tech Biz
Huge accomplishment by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin - they achieved a successful rocket launch and vertical landing:
by Jay Patterson and Lon Seidman | Jun 28, 2015 12:43pm
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after liftoff Sunday on a space station resupply mission.
Continue reading "SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Disintegrates Shortly After Launch" »
by Lon Seidman | Apr 29, 2015 12:44am
Smart watches are the next wave of personal computing devices (whether we need them or not), and Apple is hoping to lure its millions of iPhone users to its new wearable platform called Apple Watch.
by Staff Report | Apr 22, 2015 10:15pm
CT CASE PRESS RELEASE - Professor Joan A. Steitz has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of Science for her pioneering work in understanding the structure and function of RNA. She will accept the award at the 40th Annual Meeting & Dinner of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Cromwell Hotel.
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